Publications by authors named "Ebrima H Jarjue"

Article Synopsis
  • Teachable object recognizers help blind individuals with object recognition, but rely on visual inspection for training, which poses accessibility issues.
  • Researchers developed real-time data descriptors that assess photo quality and content for training an assistive iOS app, MYCam.
  • A study with 12 blind participants showed that while the app was user-friendly and improved training set quality, some users found the training process tedious, highlighting the need to balance information overload with user efficiency.
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The majority of online video contents remain inaccessible to people with visual impairments due to the lack of audio descriptions to depict the video scenes. Content creators have traditionally relied on professionals to author audio descriptions, but their service is costly and not readily-available. We investigate the feasibility of creating more cost-effective audio descriptions that are also of high quality by involving novices.

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